This One Picture Details Just How Much Socialism Has Made Venezuela’s Currency a Joke

Socialism just doesn’t work. At this point, there’s no arguing this, but it has ardent defenders on par in both veracity and logic with flat-Earthers.

A perfect example, besides every example thus seen so far, is the South American country of Venezuela. There, you have to wait in line for hours just to get a loaf of bread, and they might be out of bread by the time you get there. People are losing weight so drastically — an average of 24 lbs — that it’s become a humanitarian crisis. The lack of everyday goods that you and I take for granted is so bad that the military awards good service with toilet paper.

But this worthlessness of the bolivar can be seen very well in a picture that has been making the rounds on Twitter, that shows just how many bolivars you would need in order to equal out to one U.S. dollar. By the looks of the picture, it looks like you would need a wheelbarrow in order to cart all the bolivars around should you be insane enough to make the trade.